Math manipulatives that are made from inexpensive, common items help students understand basic mathematics concepts. Learning activities using Cheerios, jellybeans, and clay as teaching materials are suggested. (DF)

School-business partnerships are beneficial to both schools and businesses. Students are able to familiarize themselves with business operations, and businesses develop a better sense of community. This article discusses the pros and cons of business-school involvement, and suggests ideas for developing such a relationship. (DF)

Children should be prepared to use all five senses when experiencing the environment. Suggestions are offered for helping stimulate children to observe, investigate, and discover their world. (DF)

A lecture method was compared with a method based on questioning sequences that guided students to discover mathematical principles. Students with high levels of mathematics anxiety had significantly lower achievement. Students with high anxiety benefited more from the expository approach; those with low anxiety benefited more from the discovery…

When is a gifted child ready for the discovery of a new idea? When is this child ready for independent searching and inquiry? Sometimes in many traditional educational settings, it seems as if a student must wait until graduate school before he is allowed to carry out independent inquiry. At the turn of this century, there is more to learn and…

Author urged music educators to develop principles of notation, and let children discover symbols on their own, eventually becoming readers of traditional music notation. (Author/RK)

Describes a practicum course using videotape for artistic and self-discovery purposes. (CH)

Forty seventh-grade students, grouped by ability and instructed by intermediate or maximal guidance with or without concrete aids, were given post and retention tests. Low-ability students using aids achieved higher than those taught without aids. Intermediate-guidance groups had higher mean transfer scores when using aids, with no differences…

To discover a generalization from a pattern of data, students need to know how to analyze the data. This is a description of how high school students can find a formula to predict the number of spherical fruits in a piling by using differences. (JP)

Three sample lessons for elementary grades are designed to help make children aware that one of the major features of modern society is its increasing interdependence. Each lesson focuses upon the concept of systems and subsystems in society. (SM)

The main concern of this article is to describe some of the aspects or facets of discovery learning situations exemplified by the models and found in curriculum development projects. (Author)

Music teachers can make learning about music more rewarding and effective by improving the setting for conceptual development. The choral laboratory is one important step in music education and a positive method for learning music concepts. (RK)

Inquiry-discovery learning of processes involved in determining transportation patterns form the core of this teaching model. Promotes understanding of human behavior and geographic change and is sufficiently general for use at several teaching levels. (Author/JB)

Discusses, also, four "modes" of teaching the arts--information, practical, interpretative, and critical; based upon a paper presented at convention of American Educational Theatre Association, August 1969. (SW)